General Electric Co. will seek initial bids for its Japanese leasing business in late August, according to sources with knowledge of the situation. GE will distribute documents with information on the business to potential bidders later this month, the sources said, asking not to ...

NTT Docomo Inc. and a Japanese unit of U.S. conglomerate General Electric Co. said Wednesday they have agreed to form a business alliance to provide Internet of Things solutions for infrastructure management. The Japanese mobile phone giant and Tokyo-based GE Energy Japan Co. will ...

U.S. exporters large and small scrambled on Tuesday to urge foreign customers not to abandon deals supported by the U.S. Export-Import Bank, which will be forced to halt new business at midnight as its charter expires. There are about 195 pending transactions still in ...

Boeing Co. grabbed an early lead in orders and commitments at the Paris Air Show over Airbus Group SE, piling up a haul valued at almost $18 billion with help from a surprise surge in wide-body demand. Airbus’s first-day tally was $15 billion, according ...

General Electric Co., sitting atop a record backlog of more than 15,000 engines, is prodding suppliers to be sure they can handle production that’s poised to surge to the fastest ever. The efforts include periodically boosting demand on various parts makers to prepare for ...

In February, Hitachi Ltd., the nation’s largest maker of electric equipment and infrastructure systems, splurged on one of its priciest acquisitions. The target was the railway vehicle and signal businesses of Italy’s Finmeccanica S.p.A., a deal estimated at over ¥250 billion. The move was ...

General Electric Co. is discussing the sale of parts of its finance business, including the $74 billion U.S. commercial-lending unit, with potential buyers including Blackstone Group LP, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. and Wells Fargo & Co., said people with knowledge of the matter. ...

GE and Hitachi have cleared the next regulatory hurdle toward permission for the use of their joint nuclear reactor design in Britain after the government awarded it a so-called regulatory justification. Hitachi plans to build up to five UK Advanced Boiling Water Reactors at ...

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. and Siemens AG of Germany need to review their business strategy now that the French government has chosen General Electric Co.’s rival bid for the energy-related operations of Alstom SA. Mitsubishi Heavy said in a statement it “acknowledges and regrets ...

France chose General Electric to form an alliance with the power and rail company Alstom on Friday, rejecting an offer from Siemens and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), but said the deal still needs some work and the government will buy a 20 percent stake ...

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. and Siemens AG have improved their offer for Alstom SA on Friday, raising the stakes in the takeover battle with General Electric Co. for the French maker of high-speed trains and power equipment. Siemens and Mitsubishi Heavy raised the cash ...